ALL meanings of thresher
thresh·er
T t - noun thresher machine that separates grain 1
- noun thresher a person or thing that threshes. 1
- noun thresher Also, thrasher. Also called thresher shark. a large shark of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus, which threshes the water with its long tail to drive together the small fish on which it feeds. 1
- noun thresher a person who threshes 0
- noun thresher any of various large sharks of the genus Alopias, esp A. vulpinus, occurring in tropical and temperate seas: family Alopiidae. They have a very long whiplike tail with which they are thought to round up the small fish on which they feed 0
- noun thresher threshing machine 0
- noun thresher any of a family (Alopiidae, order Lamniformes) of large sharks of temperate and tropical seas, having a very long upper tail lobe, which supposedly threshes the water and drives its prey together 0